The Sleeping Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Call that a yarn said old Tom PughA
What rot I ll lay my hatB
I ll sling you a yarn worth more nor twoA
Such pumped up yarns as thatB
And thereupon old Tommy slewA
A yarn of Lambing FlatB
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When Lambing Flat broke out he saidC
Mongst others there I knewA
A lanky orkard Lunnon bredC
Young chap named Johnny DrewA
And nicknamed for his love of bedC
The Sleeping Beauty tooA
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He sunk a duffer on the FlatB
In comp ny with three moreD
And makin room for this and thatB
They was a tidy fourD
Save when the eldest Dublin PatB
Got drunk and raved for goreD
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This Jack at yarnin licked a bookE
And half the night he d spoutF
But when he once turned in it tookE
Old Nick to get him outF
And that is how they came to cookE
The joke I tell aboutF
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A duffer rush broke out one dayG
I quite forget where atB
It doesn t matter anywayG
It didn t feed a catB
And Johnnie s party said they d sayG
Good bye to Lambing FlatB
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Next mom rose Johnnie s mates to packH
And make an early shuntI
But all they could get out of JackH
Was All right or a gruntI
By pourin water down his backH
And when he turned his frontI
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The billy biled the tea was madeJ
They sat and ate their fillK
But Jack upon his broad back laidJ
Snored like a fog horn stillK
We ll save some tea to scald him saidC
The peaceful Corney BillK
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As they their beef and damper ateL
And swilled their pints of teaM
A bully notion all at wonstM
Dawned on that rowdy threeM
And Dublin Pat in frantic mirthN
Said Now we ll have a spreeM
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Well arter that I m safe to swearO
The beggars didn t lagP
But packed their togs with haste and careO
And each one made his swagP
With Johnnie s moleskins ev ry pairO
Included in the bagP
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With nimble fingers from the pegsQ
They soon the strings unbentM
And off its frame as sure as eggsQ
They drew the blessed tentM
And rolled it up and stretched their legsQ
And packed the lot and wentM
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And scarcely p r aps a thing to loveR
The Beauty slumbered soundM
With nought but Heaven s blue aboveR
And Lambing Flat aroundM
Until in sight some diggers hoveS
Some diggers out ard boundM
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They sez as twelve o clock was nighT
We ll say for sure elev nU
When Johnnie ope d his right hand eyeT
And looked straight up to Heav nU
I reckon he got more surpriseV
Than struck the fabled Sev nU
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Clean off his bunk he made a boundM
And when he rubbed his eyesV
I m safe to swear poor Johnnie foundM
His dander gin to riseV
For there were diggers standin roundM
Their missuses likewiseV
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O Lor the joke it wasn t lostM
Though it did well nigh tearO
The sides of them as came acrostM
The flat to hear Jack swearO
They sez as how old Grimshaw tossedM
His grey wig in the airO
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Some minutes on the ground Jack layG
And bore their screamin jeersW
And every bloke that passed that wayG
Contributed his sneersX
Jack cursed aloud that cursed dayG
Seemed lengthened into yearsX
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Then in a fury up he sprungP
A pretty sight you betM
And laid about him with his tongueP
Advising us to getM
And praying we might all be hungP
I think I hear him yetM
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Then on a sudden down he bentM
And grabbed a chunk of rockP
And into Grimshaw s stomach sentM
The fossil with a shockP
And Grimshaw doubled up and wentM
To pieces with the knockP
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And in the sun that day Jack stoodM
Clad only in his shirtM
And fired with stones and bits of woodM
And with his tongue threw dirtM
He fought as long as e er he couldM
But very few were hurtM
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He stooped to tear a lump of schistM
Out of the clinging soilY
By thunder you should hear him jistM
And see the way he d coilY
Upon the ground and hug his fistM
And scratch and dig and toilY
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Tis very plain he d struck it fatM
The dufferin Lunnon muffZ
The scoff and butt of Lambing FlatM
Who always got it roughZ
Could strike his fortune where he satM
The joker held the stuffZ
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Well that s the yarn it ain t so poorA2
Them golden days is o erB2
And Dublin Pat was drowned and sureC2
It quenched his thirst for goreD
Old Corney Bill and Dave the CureC2
I never heard on moreD
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The Sleepin Beauty s wealthy tooM
And wears a shiny hatM
But often comes to old Tom PughM
To have a quiet chatM
I lent him pants to get him throughM
His fix on Lambing FlatM

Henry Lawson



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